Same here, I smoke next to my PC almost non stop, granted I am smoking weed, but I would assume the tars would be similar. I find the worst build up are things with little clearances, perhaps static charge helps pull the particles, dust and tar together. I sometimes just take a dryer sheet and use it as a basic air filter on some fans, and they collect a lot before it even gets into the PC.

Other than that its just compressed air to dust off the plastics and a wipe down with water/ alcohol on safe parts with a Q tip or wipe to pull the remainder off.

I have been smoking next to my PC for 3 years solid and it still dosnt look like that.

Ok? I don't even think I asked you a question. You can be agressive all you want, doesn't make your actions any less selfish. U can do lots of things that might negatively affect other people, but I sure don't try to. And then be an ass when people ask me why I do it.

And the person I asked replied and we had a fairly decent conversation, so the business seems to have been minded well enough. People comment, and other people reply to those comments.. that's kind of the point of Reddit, right? To make comments and then have people comment on your comment and that evolves into a discussion?

Why don't you mind YOUR business? If asking a question based on someone's comments is rude, this whole site just has no purpose.

I don't think I've ever been truly speechless like this before. Not convinced of the dangers of smoking? Ok.. after seeing several people killed by their smoking habit, I have no idea how to even address that opinion.

The thing is you'll never be able to completely eliminate the third hand smoke, so you are forcing it upon people. My family used to rent property, and cleaning up after a smoker is an absolute nightmare.

My SIL is bipolar; she uses cigarettes a vice for similar reasons but also because she really does need something. If not tobacco/pot it will be alcohol.

I know this is a terrible word to use but she gets bat shit crazy on booze. I would rather her smoke to medicate herself over anything else. Many people haven't had an intimate experience with bipolar and do not truly understand what it is like.

Anyway just keep in mind smoking IS detrimental to your health, you can help mitigate this through your diet and consistent excercise however.

Cigs are a harder drug in many ways than cannabis. Nicotine is related to heroin. Its actually harder than heroin, you just smoke it in much lower dosages.

Both drugs are a "make everything allright" type of drugs. Stress reducers/killers. My theory on hard drugs is this. If you are in such mental pain that you need way copious amounts of them. Then you might as well be dead and nature recognizes this. So, yes there are health risks. However, much like with cannabis. The dangers of tobacco are inflated by the media.

I wouldnt worry that much about anyone not smoking more than a pack a day. **

Curious, how much does your SIL have to drink before she gets "batshit crazy" and what do you mean by "batshit crazy" ?

(i know you mean extreme mania (im more in the opposite end, extreme depression) but i´d like more details)

Not trying to assume what theunoticeable is saying, but canned air spray is not nearly as powerful as a basic air compressor. A 40 psi blowgun would be far superior at removing crud like this. If you blow any harder than that, though, you risk damaging the hardware itself

Yeah, I'm calling bullshit on what some of the people have been saying about this easily coming out with water. I've worked on machines as a bench tech, and this stuff is literally a nightmare to remove, especially from heatsinks.It's literally tar, and it gets into small surfaces and is basically glued in as you say, the amount of compressed air pressure one would need to remove some of the buildup I've seen would literally damage computer hardware.

I totally agree. This would be a “blow the loose stuff out” and then “scrub with appropriate solvents” scenario for sure. I was just commenting on the difference between canned and compressor air power

Worked as a lowly Geek Squad tech in college. We would require a cleaning on PCs that came in looking like that, and would haul them outside for a cleaning with an air compressor. Having that tar covered fan blowing in your face while you worked on it.... <shudder>

They need a new one anyway. To have a socket angled like that it’s definitely an old one. I can’t remember which socket is like that but it’s like 10 years or so old... probably runs vista... IDE cables... ew

I've got an ancient program from work that only works on XP service pack 2. It doesn't even like the service pack 3 version. And the company refuses to buy an updated copy because it'll cost over a grand and hey - the old version still works so why spend the money?

Tell him to download a copy of VMWare and make a virtual machine. That'll solve his problem.

Why? For anything other then 3d rendering or gaming, a LGA 775 era machine will work just fine. These machines all run windows 10, so "not being able to get online" is at least a decade away if not more.

Working and being decent are two different things. Try to run anything and it’ll be far slower and less responsive than anything on the lowest end of stuff made today (provided the boatware is all gone). Given that it’s a dell or something along those lines with xp on it, I’d would venture to guess it has a pentium 4 in it with the ide drive and all. Wouldn’t wanna try and put windows 7 or 10 on any of that.

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